{"id":143221,"date":"2015-05-12T13:34:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T20:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=143221"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:28:08","slug":"the-official-ppv-numbers-are-in-for-maypac-and-theyre-ridiculous11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/the-official-ppv-numbers-are-in-for-maypac-and-theyre-ridiculous11\/","title":{"rendered":"The Official PPV Numbers Are in For &#8220;May\/Pac&#8221; and They&#8217;re Ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/May-Pac-Poster-header1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/May-Pac-Poster-header1.png\" alt=\"May-Pac-Poster-header\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-139534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/May-Pac-Poster-header1.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/May-Pac-Poster-header1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/May-Pac-Poster-header1-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/May-Pac-Poster-header1-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The projections are predictions are done; Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao have broken pay-per-view buy-rate records with their &#8220;fight of the decade&#8221; earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>4.4 million pay-per-view telecasts were purchased in the United States of America alone which generated over $400 million, <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/12872711\/floyd-mayweather-manny-pacquiao-fight-shatters-all-live-gate-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN<\/a>&#8216;s Dan Rafael reports. <\/p>\n<p>Manny Pacquiao&#8217;s promoter, Bob Arum, chimed in and told ESPN that it would break previous records. &#8220;I think it was something we knew we would beat the prior record, but we didn&#8217;t have any reasonable expectation that it would exceed it by as much as it did,&#8221; Top Rank chairman Bob Arum stated. &#8220;We were confident it would go over 3 million (PPV buys), maybe do 3.5 million on the outside. 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